Tenets

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"Every living thing must come to know and understand Death so that Life can be best appreciate and experienced... All your dreams, all your hopes, all your hate and fears, even all your love. Would have no meaning without finality... Came the words.

"In eternity, where there is no time, nothing can grow. Nothing can become. Nothing changes. So I, created time to grow the things that I would kill...

He paused looking at the at the horizon. "You have traveled far, Islana Annora. Across my sisters' bottomless realm. You came with the invaders but stand apart. By blood and birthright. The desert will test you. Break you. Remould you. Or not... He said turning his back to her pointing deeper into the Great Desert of Skulls.

"Find my sister, if you are worthy. Follow the trail. Beyond the burning trees past where the Skara dwell...Find Yther. Or don't... he sai ominiously as if failure would mean death.